Snippet Manager in Zsh

July 21, 2021 | Reading Time: 59 s

Save it as snippets.zsh in your $PATH
Make it executable

Usage

To create a new golang snippet

snippets.zsh -d go -n

To create a new zsh snippet

snippets.zsh -d zsh -n

To copy a golang snippet to clipboard

snippets.zsh -d go -l

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

##------------USER VARIABLES---------------##
SNIPDIR=/path/to/snippet/dir
EDITOR=(leafpad) # Do not remove the brackets
export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS='
--reverse
--margin 3%
--color=dark
--color=fg:-1,bg:-1,hl:#5fff87,fg+:-1,bg+:-1,hl+:#ffaf5f
--color=info:#af87ff,prompt:#5fff87,pointer:#ff87d7,marker:#ff87d7,spinner:#ff87d7
'
##-----------------------------------------##

slugify() {
echo $1 |                                                                                                                              
        iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT |                                                                                
        sed -E 's/[~\^]+//g' |                                                         
        sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/-/g' |                          
        sed -E 's/^-+\|-+$//g' | 
        sed -E 's/^-+//g' | 
        sed -E 's/-+$//g' | 
        tr A-Z a-z
}


new() {
	TMP=$(mktemp /tmp/quick-note.XXXXXX)
	${EDITOR} ${TMP} 
	TITLE=$(head -n 1 ${TMP})
	fn=$(slugify "${TITLE}").${LANG}
	tail -n +2 ${TMP} > $fn
	echo $TITLE >> index
	rm ${TMP}
}

launch() {
	TITLE=$(cat index | fzf)
	fn=$(slugify "${TITLE}").${LANG}
	cat ${fn} | xsel --clipboard 
	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    notify-send -i "notification-message-IM" 'Snippet Copied!' "$TITLE"
	else
			notify-send -i "notification-message-IM" 'ERROR' "Unknown error"
	fi
}


while getopts 'nld:' z
do
  case $z in
    n) ACTION=NEW ;;
    l) ACTION=LAUNCH ;;
    d) LANG=$OPTARG ;;
  esac
done

pushd ${SNIPDIR}

    if [ -z ${LANG} ]
    then
          notify-send -i "notification-message-IM" 'ERROR' "Language is empty"
          exit 1
    fi

    if [ ! -d ${LANG} ] 
    then
        mkdir ${LANG}
    fi

    pushd ${LANG}
    case $ACTION in
        NEW)    new    ;;
        LAUNCH) launch ;;
      esac
    popd

popd